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I've been traveling to the Outer Banks of North Carolina since I was about seventeen years old. My mother's sister and her husband (yeah, I know, that makes them my uncle and aunt, but you wouldn't have known which part of my family this was) built a place one block off the bypass at about the 5 mile marker, right behind the Dairy Queen (that used to be there). That place became the family beach house. Anyway, after several years of visiting with family, my second wife and I ended up taking the kid's down to the place one year, after she and I had been to Islamorada and Key West on a holiday. On that year, because of surface temperatures and the position of the Gulf Stream, the ocean off the Outer Banks was azure, teal, blue, crystal, all of the colors I had seen in the Florida Keys... From that moment on, I started calling the OBX, by my pet name, "The Carolina Keys". In 2005, I put my feelings into the song, and in 2008, I performed it for an audience for the first time. It just so happens that I was recording at the time.
Grew up in Kill Devil Hills,
Where I got my first thrills,
In Rodanthe I changed my life,
In Buxton I've fished the night away,
In Corolla I took me my wife
From the waters of the Currituck and Albemarle sounds,
Through Oregon Inlet to the open seas,
Most of the best times I've had in my life,
Happened here in the Carolina Keys
I cruised the bypass just chillin',
The beach road for women,
In Okracoke I pitched my tent,
Hatteras is where I built the home,
Where the rest of my life will be spent
From the waters of the Currituck and Albemarle sounds,
Through Oregon Inlet to the open seas,
Most of the best times I've had in my life,
Happened here in the Carolina Keys
The tourists they come here from near and from far,
Take over every cottage and condo and bar,
When they have to leave they're all giving their thanks,
'Cause they all feel like natives of our Outer Banks
From the waters of the Currituck and Albemarle sounds,
Through Oregon Inlet to the open seas,
Some of the best times they've had in their lives,
Happened here in the Carolina Keys
From the waters of the Currituck and Albemarle sounds,
Through Oregon Inlet to the open seas,
All of the best times I've had in my life,
Happened here....... in the Carolina Keys
credits
from The Stories I Can Tell,
released October 20, 2010
Written, performed, recorded, and produced by Gary Snead
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